Boca Raton resident Frank DeFilippo, a former New York Police Department detective, has been sentenced to 151 months in jail for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud.

DeFilippo, 45, organized a boiler room in which telemarketers negotiated to purchase victim-owned timeshares if the victim paid them an advanced fee to cover such things as a title search, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida.

The fee ranged as high as tens of thousands of dollars. The victims were also told that the fee would be refunded to them at closing together with the money the conspirators were to pay them for the timeshares. None of these purchases ever occurred, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. In total, the conspiracy victimized over 1,000 people, many of whom were senior citizens, and cost the victims more than $2.5 million.

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